Broom-band



' (NQV Model).

J. SMITH.

- BROOM BAND.

V515295555@V Patentedmr. 25, 1584.

nawmhngmplmr. wnshmgxm, D. c;

\ y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES SMITH, or BosToMMAssAcHUsEfrrs.

BROOlVI-BAND.

o SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,685, dated March 25, 1884.-. Application filed September 11, 1883. (No model.) Patented in Canada. October 26, 1883, No. 17,999.

To .LZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES SMITH, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk,`State ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Broom-Bands, ofwvhich the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a side elevation, representing a broom provided with my improved band, and Fig. 2, a perspective View ofthe band de` tached.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to means for preventing the breakage of the filaments of which the broom is composed; and it consists in an adjustable and detachable band having a novel construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a more effective and desirable article of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from thefollowing explanation, its extreme simplicity rendering an elaborate description unnecessary.

In the drawings, Arepresents the handle, and B the body, of the broom, which are of ordinary construction and materials. The` band consists of the elastic strap C and nonelastic strap D, arranged in the form of elongated loops, and connected at their ends by the vertically-arranged ieXible straps E E. A holder, G, is disposed on either side of the band, each holder consisting of a verticallyarranged wire which passes down `inside the strap E its entire length, being bent outwardly and upwardly around its `lower end,` as shown at H, and passing inwardly through tiles-trap, where it terminates in the short horizontallyarranged projection or stud J. The upper ends'of the wire holders are also bent inwardly to form the hooks K.

In the use of my improvement, the band is slipped over the handle A and down over the body B, as shown in Fig. l, the hooks K being forced into the edges of the body and holding the band in position, or preventing it from working either up or down as the broom is used.V The studs J also enter the edges of the broom and assist in keeping the band in position, the bands H and studs .I also serving to prevent the stra-p D from slipping up toward the band C.

It will be obvious that the elastic straps C adapt the band to fit brooms 'of nearly any size, and also that the band may be easily raised or lowered on the body of the broom, as occasion requires, its object being to hold the filaments m, ofwhich thebody is composed, in proper position, and prevent them from breaking, thereby rendering the broom more durable.

I do not confine myself to the use of the studs J, although I deem the same preferable, as

" they assist materially in keeping the band in proper position on the broom.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is 1. The improved broom -band herein described, the same consisting of the elastic strap C, non-elastic4 strap D, lieXible straps E, and holders G, constructed, combined, and arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

2. In a broom-band substantially such as described, the wire holder G, having the inwardly-'projecting hook K at its upper end, and the loop H and inwardly-projecting stud J as its lower end, substantially as shown.

JAMES SMITH; Vitnesses: C. A. SHAW,

L. J. WHITE. 

